Seriously, what’s up with Marvel’s bizarre shipping schedule? Is it simply a matter of “When books are delayed, we basically have to ship them whenever they become ready to ship because it just does not make sense for us, cost-wise, to hold off on shipping it”? Because that’s the only thing I can think of that would make sense for Marvel to ship eighteen books this week and five next week (and lord knows how gigantic August 5th is going to be).

EDITED TO ADD: Yeah, apparently it is Diamond Comics who dropped the ball here – BIG TIME. A lot of Marvel books are out next week. Diamond usually doesn’t mess up this badly (a book here, a book there, sure, but not THIS bad – they’re off by, like, 10 titles!).